Celeste race 2026
The New Year’s Celeste race I do with friends happened today. When I sat down to practise this year I decided to just replay the game from the start, redoing all the main levels, getting all the strawberries and crystal hearts again, etc. I fully cleared1 the A and B sides of chapters one through six and fully cleared the A side of chapter seven and then failed to find the time to do an actual practise runs for the race. Whoops. But I still managed to set a personal best for the race, which surprised me because I felt quite fatigued today during the race and didn’t feel that I was doing my best.
Even so, it was Ruby who came out on top again—managing to come in under the hour mark!—with Caoimhe³, joining for the first time, in second.
| 🏃 | ⏱️ | 💀 | 🍓 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇Ruby | 0°59′30.986″ | 69 | 1 |
| 🥈Caoimhe³ | 1°02′14.985″ | 123 | 1 |
| 🥉Caoimhe′ | 1°07′39.175″ | 143 | 0 |
And of course we also did a pre-run warmup race of Pico-8 Celeste.
| 🏃 | ⏱️ | 💀 | 🍓 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇Ruby | 4′50″ | 26 | 1 |
| 🥈Caoimhe′ | 5′28″ | 26 | 0 |
| 🥉Caoimhe³ | 7′42″ | 57 | 1 |
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I got all normal strawberries as well as the crystal hearts and tapes. I have never gotten golden strawberries or winged golden strawberry. ↩

